squeeze an orange

squeeze an orange

To make use of everything someone or something has to offer. This business is like squeezing an orange: it doesn't matter who's doing the squeezing, you'll still get orange juice.
See also: orange, squeeze
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

squeeze (or suck) an orange

take all that is profitable out of something.
See also: orange, squeeze
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • squeeze (something) from (someone or something)
  • squeeze from
  • mill out
  • entrust
  • entrust (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • entrust to
  • squeeze off
  • squeezebox
  • squeeze-box
  • hoodwink (someone) out of (something)
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Big-ass Britton would be such a snug Xt between the sticks, there'd be no room to squeeze an orange pip past her - let alone an inWated leather ball.
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The highlight was a 15-page instruction booklet which included such handy hints as how to squeeze an orange properly.
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It was late winter and hardly a wonder, then, that Alexander Kost, a hairstylist vacationing from Chicago, was smitten with Maui in less time than it takes to squeeze an orange dry.
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